Questions tagged [tags]
For questions about the behavior or usage of tags, which are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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Remove "View tag" link from the tag tooltip
Since the old one related feature-request is not implemented yet, I would like to ask for an alternative.
The list of question with a tag can be obtained by clicking on the tag itself, so there's no ...
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Should we clean up our AI-related tags?
We have the following tags:
chatgpt
ai-tools
generative-ai (synonym of gen-ai) (this is different from prompt-design-site)
overflowai
artificial-intelligence
robots (despite the tag wiki, this is ...
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Private tags - Can we enforce NDAs?
It has been explained (and I agree with this) that SEI has no obligation to enforce NDAs. However, enforcing NDAs may enable some of our community projects. For example, Gaming would like to have its ...
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Why is the first tag sometimes in the <title> tag of some questions?
I searched through both Gaming's Meta and here, and couldn't find an answer to this. I was reviewing my questions on gaming.stackexchange.com this morning and I noticed that in certain questions like ...
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Which tag is added to the page title?
Over at Why is the first tag sometimes in the <title> tag of some questions, Rebecca mentions
To this end, the tag listed first on a question (sorted by popularity of the tag)
So, what's the ...
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There is a problem with the [problem-user] tag
We have the problem-user tag, with excerpt that reads:
This tag should be used in a question about a user who has been causing problems like spamming, unproductive answers, using abusive language and ...
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A real solution to ambiguous tags
Introduction
Even within a site's relatively focused range of topics (it's unlikely anybody on SO will think sun refers to the solar system's star), some tags are inherently ambiguous.
There are ...
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Add thousands separator to numbers in the Badges and Tags sections
Can we add a thousands separator for large numbers on the badges and tags pages?
The current format doesn't use the commas:
would say 16,196
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How can I find the tag wiki for a tag that has been synonymized with another?
The system allows to synonymize tags where the resulting tag does not have a wiki, but the source one had. How in that case I can find the wiki of the source tag without breaking the synonymized pair?
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Tags should be markable as obsolete, and opted out of being suggested for new questions
I don't know what algorithm is being used to come up with tag suggestions, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to add a simple filter that blocks it from suggesting "obsolete" tags.
I ...
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Invalid number of questions by tag after synonymizing
It's obviously a caching issue, but it is very weird and long-standing (more than 10 days).
After making the tag synonym on ruSO, I am faced with the interesting behavior related to the number of ...
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The use of [big] tag [closed]
There are 83 questions tagged big (latest one was asked 4 days back). Is there any use of big on Stack Overflow? I think it should be deleted.
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Why can't you suggest tag synonyms without 2,500 Rep?
I was working with a fairly little used tag recently and ran into something annoying. The tag, chromium embedded is referred to more often by its abbreviation CEF. However, CEF was not listed as a tag ...
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'Edit tags' loading indicator styling bug [duplicate]
When pressing the 'Edit tags' button, most of the times the loading indicators get some absurd styling:
Other question/GIF
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Could there be a one-page (or more) of alphabetical listing of tags to quickly scan to use on questions?
When seeking tags for a question, often there isn't any such tag, so a person has to erase and start over listing tags, only to be rejected again. If there were a single page listing, a quick scan ...
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How to read the "tag merge" log
Site moderators have a tool to merge tags. As a result of such a merge, a popup window with a log appears, e.g. here is a recent merging:
updating post history, 130 rows affected (pipe delimited)
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How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site?
How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site? E.g., what is the average and median score for the questions that have the tag bug on Meta.SE (I took this ...
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"Tag edit confirmed" notification seems to use relative or wrong URIs [duplicate]
While being at networkengineering.stackexchange.com I noticed that I had received a "tag edit confirmation" for "UNIX & Linux".
However when clicking on the notification I ...
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Why does "lang-bash" not highlight a list of commands and their output but adding the [bash] tag to a question does?
Why does <!-- language-all: lang-bash --> not highlight a list of commands and their output (like it used to) but adding the [bash] tag (instead) to a question does?
Example question: FQDN ...
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Incorrect number of questions in tag on question creation
Number of questions in tag shown when tag is selected on question creation might show incorrect value, if name of the tag is too long.
For example, when attempting to add tag prometheus-alertmanager ...
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Merging and synonymizing tags: how can we handle tag information?
This is the question about tools accessible to site moderators.
We have several tags that we want to synonymize/merge in some cases. Some tags have tag information, but others don't.
What's the ...
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How can I get information of a tag with the Stack Exchange API?
The API documentation of usage of /tags/{tags}/info GET does not give us this information:
How can I get this text description?
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The [interesting-tags] tag should not be a default tag on Meta sites
The tag interesting-tags is one of the default tags which are automatically imported to a local meta when a new site is created. (And cannot be removed, even if they are not used in any questions.)
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Tag synonyms: show suggestions to people who can vote
I just found (by surfing other questions) the dsl tag (which seems to be used mainly for domain-specific languages, although there is no tag wiki yet), and saw that there also is the domain-specific-...
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Do we need the [moderation-strike] tag?
I've seen the moderation-strike tag popping up a few times this past month. I'm wondering, do we really need it?
It doesn't seem to have much long-term utility, though I may turn out to be wrong on ...
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Best practices for tagging: a search engine optimization view
Should we optimize the tags both for "connecting experts with questions" and for search engines to better index the questions? The above Help page mentions:
Because the tags appear below ...
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What should we do about our [donation]s?
The donation tag has 21 questions and no tag wiki or usage guidance. The questions tagged with it vary from inquiries about donating to Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow, the Stack Gives Back event, or ...
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What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work?
What are tag synonyms?
How can tag synonyms be distinguished from "real" tags?
How are new tag synonyms created?
Who can create tag synonyms?
How can I delete/reverse/undo bad tag synonyms?
What are ...
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Allow tag-searching to include results based on tag description
feature-request
It would be great if there were two different types of searches we can make when searching tags:
standard search (status quo): search in tag names only
extended search: search in tag ...
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Please complete the orphan wiki lifecycle
It was recently announced that tags with exactly one tag that also possess a complete tag wiki will not be deleted. This is welcome news for many smaller sites.
On Board and Card games, we have ...
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Design of the 'new tags' section in moderator tools is ugly
Recently I got moderator tools privilege (10k) on ruSO and felt that the design of the page was quite ugly.
One of the worst culprits was the table in the "New tags" section- it's not ...
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Give mods/communities better tools for large retagging jobs
TL;DR
This issue remains unresolved seven years later. Please enable communities to deprecate tags. I suggest that deprecated tags could no longer be added to question posts (but allowed to remain ...
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Kill the reading tag [closed]
The reading tag currently has 492 questions.
Arbitrarily checking 15 of those revealed that the tag doesn't really add anything; it's far too general and applies to many languages and situations.
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Empty area in tags block on user profile page
In my profile there's an empty area in the Tags block:
Each tag on that block occupies 66px in height. The last tag here is bug, and this tag occupies 144px height, so it easily can contain at least ...
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My tags list cuts off, leaving out some relevant tags
I often use My tags to filter questions. Today I noticed that some questions with relevant tags were excluded from the filtered list. The culprit seems to be that the list of tags (which is pretty ...
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The "Edit" button on the Tags page escapes its bounding box when the tag name is too long
On the tags page the "Edit" button is displayed incorrectly when the tag name is too long. (Need edit privileges (2k rep) on the site to see the button.)
(printscreen from StackOverflow на ...
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Wrong z-index for tag popup when the question has an ignored tag
After this was fixed, I tested it a bit, and noticed this behavior:
When there is an ignored tag and the question is grayed out, the tag popup is below/behind the other page contents due to wrong z-...
Dan CormierStaff
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Is there an expected duration of the status-review stage? [duplicate]
The tag info page for the status-review tag states:
Indicates that the circumstances behind a bug report are set to be internally reviewed, or that the feature request contains merit to consider but ...
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Meaningless placeholder for tags on new sites
When asking a question on a new private beta, the input field for tags has a rather meaningless placeholder:
e.g. ()
I understand no tags can be recommended, but wouldn't it be better to just omit ...
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How can I determine if this is a bug or feature-request for design tagged question?
Some design issues are based completely on personal opinion. In some other situations, they feel like an edge case, like this one: Add comment link is too close to Flag link
Should this be tagged as ...
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Is there a tag on MSE for the block of links under the post body and above the comments?
Is there a tag that can be used for questions related to the block of links under the post body? (share, edit, close, delete, flag)
If there's not, how can we name it?
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What tag is used for Stack Exchange rules and their respective enforcement instruments?
Each site has a Tour, a Help Center and meta sites having faq where the site's purpose, workings and features of the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange system are explained. Also, there is FAQ for ...
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Tag excerpt is missing when searching tags? [duplicate]
The tag excerpt seems to be missing when searching for tags from the Tags page.
I believe it was working previously, while only tag synonyms that don't show the excerpt.
Tried on Chrome 113 in ...
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Can meta-style 'required tags' be implemented on non-meta sites?
Disclaimer: This is a support question solely to see if such a feature exists, and not a feature-request to ask for its implementation. If possible, I'd love it if we could focus on whether the ...
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Please always sort Red status tags to the top of the tag list (Tag tab) in Meta
Those tags are, to me at least, of higher interest than other tags on this site.
It would be great to be able to see all of them at the top of the list of tags.
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How can a question be tagged without any of the required tags?
"Duplicate of...[deleted post]" didn't contain any of the required tags. How is it possible, if the questions on a meta site require at least one of the required tags?
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What's the right required meta-tag for retagging requests?
Of the required meta tags (bug, feature-request, discussion, support), which is most appropriate for retagging requests?
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Add plural forms to the string “Browse other questions tagged...”
On the bottom of the almost each question’s page you can see the following:
In case of localized sites (I look from the side of the Stack Overflow in Russian) knowing the number (one/few/many) of ...
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Add option 'exclude these sites' in a filter rule
This feature request is not a duplicate of
Add the ability to exclude sites in global searches. Please, note the URLs in the quotations below are different. That question is asking for the ability to ...
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Where is the organization in this website? [closed]
Question Categories
Imagine a reference book with no table of contents. Ridiculous, right?
This is an amazing reference site, and it needs to group questions in categories. I see none. Just tags. ...
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